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.BIZ Domain Extension: It’s Your Business

.BIZ, the tenth most registered generic domain extension (gTLD), was approved by ICANN in June 2001 with other new extensions such as .info, .aero, and .name. .BIZ is one of the first new gTLDs and now has more than 1.6 million registered domain names.

The Story of .BIZ

.BIZ was pretty much popular in the 2000s than it is now. On June 23, 2008, the .BIZ registry announced that it had officially reached two million registered domains worldwide.

Neustar is the registry of the .BIZ extension since the introduction of the extension in 2001.

.BIZ extension is intended for bona fide business or commercial use. This is why it’s a phonetic spelling of the first syllable of business. Anyone can register a .BIZ domain name without legal or geographic qualification.

When they first opened the extension to the public, .BIZ registry didn’t implement a sunrise or landrush period, unlike other newly introduced generic domain extensions. Instead, they used a procedure named Startup Trademark Opposition Policy (STOP) whereby trademark owners can claim their intellectual properties and challenge eventual registrants.

As of May 2020, .BIZ is one of the most registered generic domain extensions (gTLDs) with more than 1.6 million registered domain names.

Most Popular .BIZ Websites

DOMAIN

GLOBAL RANK

flvto.biz

1,589

livedoor.biz

2,658

line.biz

3,173

trafficfactory.biz

3,361

egybest.biz

5,211

golden-farm.biz

6,944

cyberciti.biz

7,222

filmeonline.biz

10,767

pikdo.biz

11,396

all.biz

11,467

Some of the most popular .biz domain names barely rank in the most popular 10k websites on Alexa. Most of them are being used for driving traffic or illegal/spam purposes.

The tenth most popular website with .biz extension, all.biz, was sold before on 16 March 2011 for $61,750. Now it has an e-commerce website on it.

4 of the most expensive 10 .biz domain names are being used, and 2 of them is for sale now: 1.biz and gold.biz (€99k). Others are parked or redirecting to other domain names.

g.biz was sold before on 19 January 2011 for $9,400 and it was sold again 6 months later for $30,000.

gold.biz changed hands twice before its last buyer. Sold for $3,000 in 2006 at NamePros, then for $3,700 in 2006 at Sedo. Eventually, it was sold for $20,640 in 2012 at Sedo to its current owner.

(Note: This list is not complete because not all the domain sales are reported. Domain sales data was taken from Namebio.)

Top Countries of .BIZ Domain Extension

The United States has the most .biz domain registrations as we see in the other top extensions such as .com, .net, .org, and .info. The US has more than 5 times .biz domain names of the second country, Japan. Japan, Germany, China, and Canada are following the US with 170, 120, 100, and 85 thousand domain names respectively.

We should address that Panama is in eighth place on the list because some of the Whois privacy services use addresses in Panama.

Most Popular Keywords of .BIZ Domains

KEYWORD

DOMAIN COUNT

group

11,801

online

9,174

solutions

7,228

home

6,356

inc

6,343

tech

6,175

web

5,993

services

5,968

life

5,918

pro

5,63

The most popular 10 keywords that are included in .biz domain names are group, online, solutions, home, inc, tech, web, services, life, and pro. More than 5 thousand .biz domain names are currently registered with each keyword in the list.

7 keywords in the list are common with the top 10 keywords of .com extension :group, home, online, life, services, tech, solutions.

.BIZ Domain Count by Years

Every single day thousands of .biz domain names are dropping (being deleted) because their owners don’t renew them. These numbers above are not the total .biz registration count for each year. The numbers show how many .biz domain names still exist, and registered in each year.

.BIZ Domain Count by Length

All single-character .biz domain names and almost all two-character .biz domains are registered. 3 of the single-character .biz domain names are for sale on domain marketplaces: a.biz, s.biz, and x.biz.

A considerable number of single-character .biz domain names are registered by Chinese registrants.

Top .BIZ Registrars

REGISTRAR

DOMAIN COUNT

GoDaddy

400 Thousand

GMO

150 Thousand

Network Solutions

77 Thousand

Tucows

73 Thousand

Todaynic

55 Thousand

CSC

52 Thousand

IONOS

47 Thousand

PDR

46 Thousand

OVH

45 Thousand

Enom

42 Thousand

GoDaddy is the registrar with most .biz registration with more than 400 thousand registered domain names. GoDaddy is the top registrar for almost all most-registered generic extensions. GMO, Network Solutions, Tucows, and Todaynic are following it with 150, 77, 73, and 55 thousand .biz domain registrations respectively.

How Many of .BIZ Domain Names are Being Actively Used?

As you know, not all registered domain names are being used. 658 thousands of .biz domain names have active websites with at least one page. The remaining 919 thousand domain names are not being used.

ACTIVE WEBSITE: 658 Thousand (42%)

NO WEBSITE: 681 Thousand (43%)

PARKED: 238 Thousand (15%)

“No website” means the domain name is not resolving at all.

.BIZ Domain Names for Sale on Marketplaces

There are more than 30 million domain names listed for sale on domain marketplaces. 50 thousands of .biz domains listed on various marketplaces such as Sedo, GoDaddy Auctions and Afternic.

Internationalized .BIZ Domain Names

Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) program, which was started in 2000, allows registrants to register domains with non-Latin alphabet characters.

There are 25 thousand internationalized .biz domains; less than 1% of all IDNs and more than3% of .biz domain names.

The oldest .biz IDN is börse.biz which was registered on 12 October 2004 and it means “stock exchange” in German.

.BIZ Domain Name Disputes

A domain dispute occurs when somebody claims the right to use a domain name.

According to DNDisputes.com, 1.2% of all domain dispute cases filled in WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) are .biz domain names.

Where You Can Register a .BIZ Domain Name?

You can register your .BIZ domain name with almost all domain registrars. The price for the first year is about $4, less than other popular gTLDs such as .com, .net, and .org.

The tenth most popular generic extension (gTLD), .BIZ keeps its registered domain counts steady, when most popular extensions such as .com, .net and .org increase. As of May 2020, it has more than 1.6 million domains.

Do you have any .biz domain name? Please share what you think about the .biz extension.

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